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Drew Halfnight

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A wealthy suburb of Calgary is without mail service, after a hawk repeatedly dive-bombed its letter carrier, even breaking a helmet she wore to protect herself. Residents of over 150 homes will have to pick up their mail at a local depot until the hawk makes its annual migration to Argentina. The attacks began in […]

The recent economic downturn has actually helped Torontonians breathe easier, a spokesperson for Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment said today. “We’ve seen reduced industrial production and emissions from the United States,” Kate Jordan said. “So that’s resulting in a slow-down of smog both upwind and here in Ontario.” Smog is produced when sunlight heats up […]

Vintners in Cape Town have a problem. And so do the region’s apes. Gangs of baboons are invading vineyards, gobbling up all the grapes and getting hammered on the fermented ones, the Telegraph reports. Not only that. Baboons have been killing peacocks and dogs, intimidating children, robbing homes and — gasp! — breaking up garden […]

Blair Chiasson, the presumed victim of what was believed to be a homophobic incident in Toronto’s east end, was supposed to be thankful to the residents who rushed to his defence. Instead, he is angry at those who lashed out at street preachers conducting a service across from his house. “They took a non-issue and […]

A two-year-old Toronto-area boy died Thursday afternoon after being left in a blistering hot car for about two hours in a suburb of Houston, Texas, according to U.S. media reports. It appeared the toddler was forgotten in the car after the family returned home from buying groceries. The child was brought to hospital, where he […]

Full service has resumed on the TTC’s Yonge-University-Spadina subway line, which had been closed between St. George and Union stations for about an hour due to an injury at track level. The injury occurred at St. Andrew station, the TTC said.

It’s 1:47 p.m. on Monday. For the baggage porters at Union Station, that means the No. 72 has arrived from Windsor. It’s a seven-car train with 300 passengers, so the red caps on duty grab their signature yellow dollies and trundle up to track level to fish for customers, just as generations of porters have […]

In his self-portrait, Stefano Savioli looks a little like the singular Dutch post-Impressionist who only became famous after his tragic life ended. Same deep, cruel lines. Same wild colours. Perhaps Mr. Savioli will soon have something else in common with Vincent van Gogh — notoriety after death. The unknown B.C. painter was found lying in […]

Like a lover spurned, the town of Smiths Falls is erasing all traces of its relationship with Hershey’s Chocolate. The U.S. company shuttered its plant there last year after 45 years. Now, the town, which is not particularly flush with cash, is spending $170,000 to repaint and repair an iconic water tower that declares the […]

A man was arrested, three police officers were hospitalized and a young woman was in critical condition Wednesday night after an incident in which the woman plummeted 11 storeys from the balcony of a high-rise near highway 401 and the Don Valley Parkway. The woman’s fall was broken, and her life likely saved, by a […]